Well, put the organic baking profession on the backburner. We still haven't heard back from the bakery, so about 6 days ago we left from Picton and hopped on a big cruiser ship/ferry for a 3.5 hour ride across the Cook Straight while watching the history channel and drinking milk. We have been up in Wellington for 6 days hanging out with Ben and his roommates, basically just living in Wellington. We have been in contact with an organic Eco-Village, hoping to work there. They include a group of 10-15 families who merged together because they were all interested in living similar lifestyles. They purchased around 150 acres of land about 100 Km north of Auckland on a peninsula. Each family grows their own food organically, as well as structures their own homes and are basically sustainable. This sounded interesting to us, because we want to learn how to milk a cow and drink some raw milk, as well as get more tuned up to some of their lifestyle. It's been a fun 6 days here back in Wellington, meeting more people and spending time downtown and hanging with the flatmates. Sounds like most of this house is heading up to Auckland region to tour some of the northland and we will probably do some hiking or sight-seeking with them. So right now it is Thursday night here and we are preparing to bounce northward somehow on Saturday or Sunday. There has been talks of hopping in cages in the ocean to look for sealife, namely whale,dolphin, or shark...just in the talking phase though, nothing further yet. We've since surpassed the halfway point of the trip, and have alittle over 3 weeks left, the flight home boards on June 22, the cash flow is running extremely low, but morale is still running rampant, I am loving it out here, but still missing the family and friends back home, as well as June weather at the lake. It is in transition from fall to winter out here, so June and summer sounds nice, even though the winter here is mild...Wellington has been probably in the 50's most days, and will continue to warm up the further north we travel. The day after we finished our WWOOF Job in the Marlborough Sound we saw the pilots on the news with the people we worked with, talking about the scary situation of them running out of fuel and almost crash landing, was interesting to see we were there when it happened.
I think it's time to grab some tunes and my headphones and go for a walk around Wellington and see if i just can't run myself into a nice little cafe to get some reading done. Below is the Eco-Village website link we have been talking to.



http://www.otamatea.org.nz/index.htm